Favorite Dive/Authentic Coffee House

Since there was a message about favorite Dive Bar, I thought I would add a favorite 'Dive' Coffee House thread.I guess 'dive' for a coffeehouse is relative, but I intend it NOT to mean Ritual or blue bottle ...Please.

I go back a ways (going on 50 years) with Caffee Trieste but I think of it as "classic," not divey. Places like "Cofffee Ron's" in the Tenderloin, open 24/7, were truly dives I'n not sure the genre exists today, unless you include donut shops, which can be plenty divey. (A kiddley divey too.)

The Blue Danube on Clement also comes to mind in this vein, as does Mario's Bohemian Cigar Store esp during the day. We were at Blue Danube recently on a foggy summer Saturday night, and I felt like I'd gone to a different city.

I guess what I was trying to emphasize was a non-hipster coffee house, I call them dives, but they may have different symbolism to another person.

I used to work in a coffee house, and it was my favorite job, although it did not pay much. I love coffee and I enjoy the higher quality coffees coming out of the newer places, but I am just burned out on the hyper-obsession of perfect coffee and the hipster scene. Maybe I am wrong, but it I think it is cheesy. Do you really want to wait 2 hours for a capp at Ritual Sunday morning? I guess I am somewhat nostalgic for the gritty coffee houses of Mission/Bernal that was a mix of Poets, families, and students.

Caffe Trieste predates the Med by a few years, but Lino Meiorin is often credited with inventing Caffe Latte as we know it over there there. The Med as I knew it in the 60's certainly qualified as a dive, by any definition.